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In fall 2017, campus senior Jonathan Allen secured a seat in the ASUC Senate after the resignation of former senator Sunny Aggarwal. This spring, however, votes were recounted for a second time as a part of the ASUC Elections Council meeting Monday after Allen himself resigned.Read More…

UC Berkeley’s Blockchain Lab received a donation Wednesday worth more than $50,000 in the form of bitcoin, a prominent virtual currency and worldwide payment system. The electronic donation, gifted by the EchoLink Foundation, is the first of its kind at both the Blockchain Lab and on campus.Read More…

ASUC Senator Sunny Aggarwal, who represents the Pirate Party, is set to resign from his Senate seat because he is no longer an enrolled student at UC Berkeley this semester. The seat will remain vacant until votes from last semester’s elections are re-tabulated and a new Senator is elected to replace him.Read More…

After the close of the candidacy-filing period for the upcoming ASUC elections, a mandatory elections meeting was held Tuesday night in the ASUC Senate chambers that all candidates, regardless of position, were obligated to attend.Read More…